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The picotts text-to-speech platform uses offline pico Text-to-Speech engine to read a text with natural sounding voices. This requires to install the pico tts library on the system, typically on debian just do sudo apt-get install libttspico-utils On some Raspbian release, this package is missing but you can just copy the arm deb package from debian.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable text-to-speech with Pico, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts

{% configuration %} language: description: "The language to use. Supported languages are en-US, en-GB, de-DE, es-ES, fr-FR and it-IT." required: false type: string default: "en-US" {% endconfiguration %}

{% linkable_title Full configuration example %}

The configuration sample below shows how an entry can look like:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
  - platform: picotts
    language: 'fr-FR'